Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm using Debian Linux 2.1 and have tried to get international characters > to work in console mode. But, it will not work! The characters that I > especially want to display are from the swedish alphabet: the "a" character > with a ring above the "a", and the "a" character with two dots above the > "a" and finally the character "o" with two dots above the "o".
[snip] > I have also been using the "loadkeys se-latin1" command after I have edited > the keymaps in > /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/se-latin1.map.gz Use kbdconfig (as root) and choose n -> i386 -> qwerty -> fi-latin1 I'm having trouble with se-latin1 (can't use ']'), but fi-latin1 works fine. > It seems that all characters above 127 is impossible to get/put in the > console mode! Why? You must tell bash to accept 8-bit character input and output. Add the following to /etc/inputrc (or ~/.inputrc): set convert-meta off set input-meta on set output-meta on /Andreas -- Andreas Persenius [EMAIL PROTECTED]
